Beaming mechanism for warping and beaming machines.



APPLICATION FILED DEC. 12. 19M. 1,246,284.

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APPUCATIOH FILED DEC. 12 1914-.

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GEORGE W. KUENNETH, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOB, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO JEANNET'IE KUENNETH, OF PATERSON; NEW JERSEY.

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Specification of Letters Patent. P t t x7 1 11 Application filed December 12, 1914. Serial no. 876,810.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Kennnnrn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beaming Mechanisms for \Varping and Beaming Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a beaming mechanism for the beaming of narrow-ware warps wherein, simultaneously with the rotation of the several beams, the latter will be traversed laterally in one direction, thereby to compensate for the traverse (in the opposite direc tion) to which, according to the niostapproved method of preparing certain kinds of warps, the threads are assumed already to have been subjected when winding them on the reel, 2'. e., in warping. v

Another object of the invention is'to provide a beaming means for the beaming of narrow-ware warps which maybe applied without appreciable change to any of the traversing supports for warp beams for broad goods that are now in common use, for instance, that shown in the Keyworth Patent No. 753,079.

Another object is to attain simplicity, durability and eliiciency and to renderthe mechanism quickly adapted to the accommodation of beams of varying sizes.

In the said drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved mechanism, partly in section;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 0c-a:in Fig. 1, looking toward the left;

Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view on the line y-y in Fig. 1, looking toward the right;

Fig. 1s a similar sectional view on line y-y, looking toward the left;

Fig. 5 is a sectional detail view showing the means for disconnectively connecting each beam with its driving means;

Fig. 6 is a detail of one of the transmission pinions; and,

Fig. 7 is a detail illustrating a modification of the bracket-clamping means.

According to my invention, a supporting structure for thecseveral beams is movable laterally with respect to the frame of a warping machine, and suitable means are provided for eflecting the traverse ofsaid structure and simultaneously rotating all the beams.

To this end, a is the frame of the machine, I) a pair of fixed parallel guide-rods suitably secured therein, 0 and (Z a pair of stands which are connected by the reach rod e (fixed in one of the stands and held adjustably in the other by the hand screw 7) and may slide on the guide rods 6, and g a screw which is journaled in the frame and a bridge-piece hfiXed to the guide'rods, said screw having its threa ding'engaged with the stand c and provided with a sprocket wheel 2' through which it maybe driven from the reel (not shown) of the warping machine, all substantially the same as in the patent to Keyworth before mentioned, wherein the said stands are adapted for the support of a beam onto which to wind the warps for broad goods that have beenwound with traverse on the reel of the machine, and to be traversed by the rotary screw contrary to the above-named traverse as the winding on the beam proceeds.

On the support constituted by the connected stands 0 d is superimposed my improved mechanism (the beam for the broad-. goods warp being of course first removed) described as follows:

j and 7c are two stands which are rigidly connected by the brace rod Z and the upper non-revoluble squared shaft m; parallel and in vertical alinement with and'below the rod Z and shaft on there is journaled in the stands j 70 another squared shaft n, this shaft'being connected with the rotary drive shaft 0, ournaled in stand 0, by the gearing 79 preferably housed in gear casing 9' projecting from the standj. The superstructure comprising the stands 7' 7e, shafts mand .n and rod Z and other parts to be described may be secured to the support constituted by the connected stands 0 cl in any suitable manner; in the preferred construction the stands 3' 70 rest on the portions 0 d of the stands 0 cl, stand 7' being secured in place by clamppiece 1 and screws 8 and stand is by the screws t. a

When the threads are placed on the reel of the warping machine they are laid'on in sections wlnch'are so close together that in the sheet of threads which they form there are no perceptible spaces between the sections. They should be removed and deposited on the beams, if possible, without disturbing this relation, wherefore I provide for so supporting the beams in the improved mechanism as to accomplish this object; that is to say, the beams are arranged in two parallel spaced sets, whereby, although end portions of the beams and their direct sup porting means in the two sets may overlap, the warp receiving portion of any one beam in one set is not laterally offset with respect to an adjoining beam in the other set more than the distance between any two threads in a section.

To this end two sets of brackets are provided, one for the one set of beams and the other for the other, each set including, alternating with each other, brackets designed to receive the means to transmit power to the beams and support the same at one end and plain brackets serving simply to support the beams at the other end.

One of the brackets of the first kind may be thus described: It consists of two counterpart halves a which together form a housing, as best shown in Fig. 5, the halves at one end being fork-shaped as at 0, Fig. 4, and one of the halves having integrally projecting therefrom substantially at right angles thereto an arm to.

Each bracket 00 of the second kind is a simple arm.

To adjustably secure each bracket (of either kind) to the upper shaft m I provide a U-shaped clamp y which receives lateral lugs e on the bracket and has a set screw 2 to be set up against the shaft m.

Corresponding to each bracket of the first kind there is arranged on the shaft n a. pinion 3, which is annular and has internal notches 3 receiving the edges of the shaft a, so that it is virtually splined thereto, rotating therewith although movable longitudinally thereof. This pinion has opposite hubs 3 on which the forked portion 01 of the said bracket has a bearing (Fig. 4). The arrangement is such that when the bracket is released from shaft m it may be shifted laterally along the shafts m and n, carrying with it pinion 3.

At their outer ends the halves u of'the housing portion of the bracket u w have opposite inwardly flanged bearings 4 in which is journaled a pinion 5 whose hub 6 is a trifle longer than the thickness of the bracket. Penetrating the pinion is the hub 7 of a face plate 8, the free end of the hub aving screwed thereon a hand-wheel 9. The hand-wheel serves to releasably secure the face plate to the pinion, so as to rotate therewith. 'For transmitting to the pinion 5 the rotary motion imparted to the pinion 3 by the shaft n I provide one or more transtraverse already mission pinions 10, these being preferably formed of fiber and journaled on cylindrical blocks 11 which are held between the halves u of the bracket, their trunnions 12 enterin holes in said halves (Fig. 6).

FJach beam 13 is of usual construction, having its trunnions 14 arranged in a bracket :0 and the sleeve of the face plate 8, and the beam and face plate having projections 15 whereby the face plate drives the beam.

16 is a pointer or gage having its butt end lTdfprked and adapted to be fixed over the ro Operation: The brackets for the extreme right hand beam are adjusted on the shafts m and n to such a position that the inside face of the flange of the right hand beam in Fig. l is substantially opposite the first right-hand thread of the sheet of warp on the reel, conveniently accomplished by ad justing the parts so that with pointer 16 hearing against say the right hand flange of the right hand beam its free end will coincide with the thread referred to; the brackets for the first right-hand beam in the other set of beams are then adjusted so that the inside of its right-hand flange is alined with the inside of the left-hand flange of the beam first referred to; the brackets for the second beam in the first-named set are adjusted in the same way with relation to the first beam of the other set, and so on throughout the entire series. To facilitate the adjustment, the shaft m may be provided with a scale 18 as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be understood that suitable means is provided for rotating the shaft 0 while the screw 9 is being rotated. The result of these operations is that while the several beams are beingrotated through 0, 7), n, 3, 10, 5 and 8, (the power being received at member 39, arranged at one end of and moving with the traversing supporting structure, and by means of shaft n and the several sets of parts 3, l0, 5 and 8 being distributively transmitted to the beams) the entire organism is being by the rotating screw 9, so that the traverse thus effected compensates for the opposite accomplished with respect to the warps as they were laid 011 the reel.

My construction not only permits quick removal of filled beams and the replacement thereof by empty beams, but the employment of beams varying in size. I. considerably simplify the mechanism by arranging the two supporting shafts for the brackets one above the other and projecting the brackets oppositely therefrom, as shown in Fig. 4.

In Fig. 7 the U-shaped clip y is shown connected with the bracket by means of a removable headed pin 19 instead of by the lugs 2 shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus fully describedmy invenadvanced laterally V tion, what I claim as new and desire to se cure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination, a frame, a supporting structure arranged to move therein in a definite path, a plurality of beams and a rotary member common to the beams, said beams and member being revoluble in and movable with said structure and having their axes of rotation parallel with each other and with said path, means to trans init rotary motion from said member to the beams, means to move said structure, and means to simultaneously rotate said member.

2-. In combination, a frame, a supporting structure arranged to move therein in a definite path, a plurality of beams each revoluble in and movable with said structure and having bearings therein independent of the other beams and also having its axis of rotation parallel with said path, a rotary member revoluble in one end of and also movable with said structure, means to transmit rotary motion from said member distributively to the beams, means to move said structure and means to simultaneously rotate said member.

3. In combination, the frame, a plurality of rotary beams having their axes horizontal, brackets supporting the beams, a supporting structure movable in the frame horizontally and parallel with the axes of the beams, means to support said brackets removably mounted on said structure, means to rotate the several beams, and means to simultaneously move said structure.

a. In combination, supporting means including a pair of parallel horizontal shafts, one being rotary, beams having their axes parallel with the shafts and arranged on opposite sides of the plane common to said shafts, and means, carried by and projecting oppositely from said shafts, for supporting and imparting rotary motion to the beams.

5. In combination, supporting means including a pair of parallel shafts, one being rotary, beams having their axes parallel with said shafts, and means, carried by and projecting oppositely from said shafts, for supporting and imparting rotary motion to the beams including in each instance a bracket secured to one shaft and gearing journaled in the bracket and operatively connecting the other shaft and the corresponding beam, said other shaft being rotary.

6. In combination, a hollow two-part bracket, a beam and means to support and rotate the beam including a rotary member having a hub journaled in the opposite walls copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

of said bracket, a face-plate engaged with the beam and having a hub penetrating said I hub of the rotar member and means I 7 Iscrewed on the free end of the hub of the }face plate and coactive therewith to clamp the face plate in fixed relation to the hub of the rotary member.

7. In combination, with the traversing structure of a warping and beaming machine and a horizontal rod arranged in said structure, a gage adapted to bear against a ,lateral face in said structure and to be alined with a definite point on the reel of the machine, said gage consisting of a pointer having a forked end fitted over said rod. 8. In combination, a supporting means including a pair of parallel shafts, a bracket, means to attach the bracket to one shaft, said bracket having a forked portion fitted over the other shaft, a beam journaled in the bracket, and intermeshing driving gearing for the beam having one member thereof arranged on the shaft and the remainder journaled in the bracket.

9. In combination, a supporting means including a pair of parallel shafts, a bracket having means to attach the same to one shaft, said bracket being shiftable longitudi nally of said shafts and having a forked portion fitted over the other shaft, a beam journaled in and shiftable with said bracket and means to transmit rotary motion to the beam including a gear member on the shaft interlocked with said forked portion to shift laterally therewith.

10. In combination, a supporting means including a shaft, a bracket, a U-shaped clip fitted over the shaft, a pin extending through the bracket and the legs of the clip, means in the clip to exert pressure on the shaft transversely of the pin, and a beam j ournaled in the bracket.

11. A beaming mechanism comprising a supporting means including parallel horizontal shafts arranged one over the other, beams having their axes parallel with the shafts and arranged on opposite sides of a plane common to the shafts, and beam-supporting means including brackets receiving the beams and projecting in opposite directions each from both of the shafts, said brackets being substantial counterparts of each other.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEO. W. KUENNETH.

lVitnesses:

JOHN STEWARD, /VM. D. BELL.

Washington, D. G. 

